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‘Before these automatic devices catch on with a general audience, they'll have to be affordable, effective, and easy to use.’

‘Many renovated and new restrooms are including automatic sensors to control faucets and toilets.’

‘A fully electric mechanism is used for opening and closing the roof, and all the driver has to do is set the handbrake and press a button - the entire process is fully automatic.’

‘The operating light should be equipped with an automatic switch to the emergency power source when the usual power fails.’

‘If automatic valves are used, they should be controlled from a central location and be easy to override with manual controls.’

‘Previously it was up to the police to deal with such misdemeanours but now contractor-operated automatic cameras are being entrusted with the job.’

‘In many cases there are also requirements to integrate the system with elevator control, automatic door control and parking gate systems.’

‘This is achieved initially by means of a manual winch but eventually through a computer-controlled automatic mechanism.’

‘A mechanical arm turns pages every couple of seconds while an automatic machine translator wired to this device bangs out English text.’

‘It is conducted so as to consume gas only when water is drawn, and by an automatic arrangement it lights its own gas as soon as the hot water is turned on and extinguishes as soon as the water is turned off.’

‘Yet thousands of people refused to go home, even after soldiers opened fire with automatic rifles.’

‘We have come under automatic machine-gun fire.’

‘The distant sound of automatic cannon fire could be heard, and then there was a tremendous explosion above them.’

‘He replied, slamming a new magazine into the automatic handgun he was holding.’

‘He had tried to talk her into bringing an automatic firearm, as the assault would be a heavy one, but she was stubborn, and insisted that the knives would suit her fine.’

‘Police used water cannon and fired automatic weapons into the air to drive the protesters back onto the campus then surrounded a university building that students had occupied.’

‘The only hint of fear in the company was the presence of two tall gorilla bodyguards clasping small automatic fire-arms, who glared at us suspiciously as we approached, but made no attempt to stop us.’

‘He said the rebels, armed with automatic rifles and machetes, went on a shooting rampage, apparently to intimidate the villagers.’